iOS 7: All the features you might have missed!

When Apple unveiled iOS 7 at WWDC 2013 on Monday, they spent most of their time talking about ten major features of the new OS, including a refreshed interface, better multitasking, and iTunes Radio. But, as with past years, they also spent a couple of minutes highlighting additional features that, while they enhance the user experience, don't merit a five or ten-minute explanation of of their own. The following is a breakdown of other features that we know of that users will see when iOS 7 is released:

Maps bookmark syncing - Users can now bookmark their directions and sync them across devices, most likely including the new Maps application in OS X Mavericks.

Chinese-English bilingual dictionary

Smart download of TV episodes - We don't know exactly what this is, but it could mean that your iOS device will download new episodes of TV shows that you have a season pass for when they become available in the store.

Tencent Weibo - Support for the Chinese microblogging service.

There are undoubtedly many other features present in iOS 7 that won't be talked about until after iOS 7 ships in the fall.

A smart dialer similar to HTCs. When u open phone app, it always opens to dialer. Instead of hitting contacts then searching for a particular person, you can hit the numbers that correspond to their name. About three taps in you have a list above dialer of the potential contacts you might be looking for. Tap their name and the call begins. Pretty speedy way to find someone quickly. IMO, way better set up than whats on the iPhone. The one thing I really miss badly from my HTC evo....

I would appreciate a setting for allowing the dialer to be the default for opening the app. It's better which app am I in? feedback than a contacts list. Besides, I'd like to keep my brain in shape by dialing a few numbers, thank you very much.

Engineer away physical activity, we get obese. Engineer away all mental effort and we get dementia.

Just use favorites and spotlight... Lol Did you miss that ?? Don't point missing that when there are here since 3 year but you don't know how to use it. Juste go to spotlight and make Contact appears on top of the list...

Do you mean to allow you to add an event to multiple sync'd calendars? Because I would love that.

I play in several bands, each has their own group calendar in Google Calendars that we add our gigs. I have to create 3 events in my iOS calendar so I can mark out that I am busy on all of my different bands calendars and it is a) time consuming and b) looks messy

No, I mean literallly... just duplicate an event and then maybe modify the copy, as opposed to having to start over creating a new event.

It's such a basic thing (which the desktop version has done forever) that it's simply amazing we're this many years down the road without it. My only conclusion can be that the teams just don't communicate (OSX-iOS) and/or that there is like 1 person working on it who never has time to actually think about it.

I think what Irelandjnr and what Apple are saying is probably the same thing. But honestly it probably doesn't matter to many people because i am sure a lot of us use iMessage. long mms support would be something relating to messages to no iMessage users.

Uh, Apple's products (iPhone, iPad) are getting a bigger presence in the enterprise than any other smartphones or tablets out there, so not sure what you're talking about. Better enterprise support features are added in every iOS release, and there's a reason companies and corporations are overhwelmingly adopting iOS devices over Android, Windows Phone, or BB.

Yeah, I've been slightly embarrassed when my callers repeatedly have asked, "What was that," when I get an email notification or something. It seems like a no-brainer, like being able to easily transfer and delete large blocks of photos, etc.

But these are the sorts of things that kept me away from ios for so long. My existing smartphone os's were mature, if not modern. But then, they went away.

Watched the dev videos. The Volume Purchase Program addition is licenses in stead of Codes. No more spreadsheets and you can give out and retrieve a license without plugging the device in. This is a big deal for those in education.

Disabled Searching Email Subjects?
looks like searching in email can't be limited to a particular field any more... You used to be able to limit searches to subject, from, etc. Did they really remove this feature?